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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "PATRICK EBOUE" <peboue79@gmail.com>
Reply-To: peboue37@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:03:26 +0200
Subject: =?WINDOWS-1256?Q?=FDCONFIDENTIAL_DOCUMENT/INVESTMENT.?=
FROM: MR. PATRICK EBOUE
TEL: +27 73 141 1877.
My dear friend,
Thanks for giving me your time. Please be patient and read my letter to you.
I am a staff of Lloyds TSB Group, South Africa attached to the Private
Banking Services. I am contacting you concerning a customer and an
investment placed under our banks' management few years ago. I contacted you
independently of our investigations and no one is informed of this
communication in which I would like to intimate you with certain facts that
I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2000, the subject matter; ref: bb/tsb/bank/73 came to our bank to engage
in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 22.35 million United States
Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over on his behalf. I was the
officer assigned to his case and I made numerous suggestions in line with my
duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the Private Banking
Services Department, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put
into our bank. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investment being
placed and I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime
ratings. The favored route in my advice to customers is to start by
assessing data on 600 traditional stocks and bond managers and alternative
investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various
opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of operation,
the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over 16 million
United States Dollars. This margin was not the full potential of the fund
but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
In mid 2004, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make
an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Europe. He directed that I
liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm in Europe. I informed
him that our bank would have to make special arrangements to have this done
and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a
9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges.
He complained about the charges but later came around when I explained to
him the complexities of the task he was asking from us. Cash movement across
borders has become especially strict since the incident of 9/11. I contacted
our affiliates in Europe and to have the funds moved to main land Europe . I
undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise
instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited in a security
consultancy firm here in South Africa first of all. The firm is a specialist
private firm that accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue
chip corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions
that need immediate access to cash. This small and highly private
organization is familiar especially to the highly placed and well-connected
organizations. In line with instructions, the money was deposited. He told
me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from Norway
later that week.
This was the last communication we had and it transpired around 25th
November 2004. In June last year, I received a call from the security firm
informing me of the inactivity of that particular portfolio. This was an
astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I managed
the private banking sector, I was the only one who knew about the deposit,
and I could not understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I made futile efforts to locate him without success. After a while I
received information that A person who suited his description was declared
dead of a heart attack in Cannes , South of France. We were soon enough able
to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed. I immediately
launched an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about
the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are
familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services
usually prefer not only anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from
conventional processes. In his bio data form, he listed no next of kin. In
the field of private banking, opening an account with us requires that our
bank shall divulge no information of its existence and accounts are rarely
held under a name. Depositors usually use numbers and codes to make the
accounts seem anonymous. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of
having their mails sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that
there are no traces of the accounts and as I said, rarely do they nominate
next of kin which normal under the situation. Private banking clients apart
from not nominating next of kin also usually in most cases leave wills in
our care, in this case; he died in testate.
What I wish to relate to you will smack off unethical practice but I want
you to understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking world who
finds the internal politics there aberrational. The world of private banking
especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who occupy certain offices
and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together
the general direction of what I propose. There is US$ 30,370,000.00
deposited, I alone have the deposit details and they will release the
deposit to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the
existence of this deposit for as far as the finance firm is concerned, the
transaction with our deceased customer was concluded when I sent the funds
to the firm. All outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. The security firm has no single idea of
what's the history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting
instructions to release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is
the situation.
MY PROPOSAL: I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the
finance firm to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving
relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with
you in 50% for me and 50% for you. That is: I will simply nominate you as
the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. I would have gone
ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a
straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit. But on the
other hand, you as a foreigner would easily pass as the beneficiary with the
rights to claim. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you
in a few days. I will officially communicate with the security company and
instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these things: all is
done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask that if you
find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail.
I ask that you do not be vindictive or destructive. If my offer is of no
appeal to you, delete this message and forget that I ever contacted you. Do
not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not
know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out of comparable
situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and
what I do; I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you
to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this
move. Such opportunities only come ones' way once in a lifetime. I cannot
let this chance pass me by and I hope you understand because for once I
found myself in total control and face to face with my destiny. These
chances won't pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you
will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not
destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them
with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task
well worth undertaking. I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have
here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the
only one who knows of this situation; let's share the blessing if you find
yourself able to work with me.
Contact me through the above info and if you give me positive signals, I
will initiate this process towards a conclusion. Please observe these
instructions religiously.
I wait for your urgent response please.
MR. PATRICK EBOUE.
TEL: +27 73 141 1877.
Personal email (peboue37@hotmail.com)
Note that I am a family man; happily married with two kids. I send you this
letter not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences might be,
but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that
success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one
truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my
confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting, soon.
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